Eugene Leitl gave me permission to send this to the list. I'm glad to see he's not as demanding as I had assumed!
John
I wrote:
>Cryonics being a religion? Is it simply because it >takes "faith" in scientific progress, due to the fact >cryonics is not presently reversible? Must it be >reversible to get your full acceptance?
Eugene Leitl replied:
Oh no, that would be an unreasonably stringent requirement.
To remove the cargo cult from the cargo cult science in cryonics you have to have decent quality control and peer review to guarantee consistency of
suspensions, and of course you're very much required to document what is going on in people's frozen heads at the ultrastructural scale during, freezing or vitrification. Once you have that documented, one can start having a scientifically rigorous discussion how much bad or good news it makes to reconstructability of the undenatured structure, and going from
that trying to reconstruct the operational dynamics of that given chunk of tissue.
For starters, peer review and consistent quality control comparable to what is state of the art in the medical profession would do plenty.
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